Popular Documentary Movies on YouTube - Page 347

Fort Apache

2021

Fort Apache

2021
This documentary follows the Fort Apache Theatre Company through one year of intense work. All the members of Fort Apache have participated to the theatre workshops that were held at Rebibbia (the primary jail in Rome), and are now able to pursue their new passion for acting even outside of prison. Now, after many years of hard work and dedication, these ex-convicts are now part of the Fort Apache "family" under the lead of Valentina Esposito, who is the founder of the company as well as the screenwriter and director of all the plays.
Vai!

2021

Vai!

2021
Corinthians has spent 23 years without winning a title. Its fanbase, however, only grew and became more and more present: both in the life of the team and in the political life of the country.
The New Juarez

2012

The New Juarez

2012
As Ciudad Juarez slowly recovers from a six year period of hyperviolence, a militant police chief stirs controversy, and wary citizens cast their hopes on a new national president. All the while, the tragic facts of the "drug war" begin to form a far more sinister picture.
Me, the People: A Populist Handbook

2020

Me, the People: A Populist Handbook

2020
5.8
How wedge politics on key divisive issues is giving rise to a new kind of populist leaders: disruptors with a new playbook who are loved by some and challenged by others, dividing the electorate. Are they also expressing the will of the people?
Finding Courage

2020

Finding Courage

2020
A former Chinese journalist living in exile in the United States, desperately tries to reunite her broken family and get justice for the murder of her sister.
Mexican Wave

2018

Mexican Wave

2018
A documentary following a group of London based Mexicans, campaigning for democracy and an end to the forced disappearances of 43 farming students in September 2014 and the routine killings of Mexicans, including all too often students, journalists, and the systemic political and economic issues surrounding these circumstances. —Judson Vaughan
Entangled

2020

Entangled

2020
Efforts to protect North Atlantic right whales from extinction, the impacts of those efforts on the lobster industry, and how the National Marine Fisheries Service has struggled to balance the vying interests. There are now believed to be fewer than 400 right whales, making them among the planet’s most endangered species. Between millions of lobster lines and warming waters due to climate change, their population has been plummeting, and their survival is threatened. The federal government is proposing regulations which could reduce lobster lines by half in much of the Gulf of Maine and harm the livelihoods of many lobstermen and has sparked a political backlash. The future of the iconic species hangs in the balance.
Dog Valley

2020

Dog Valley

2020
2.6
In 1988, two ex-convicts kidnapped, beat, raped, tortured and murdered Gordon Church, a gay college student from a rural Mormon community in southern Utah. Dog Valley explores the horrific events of his death, the lives and minds of his killers, and how it has helped shape modern hate crimes legislation in Utah.
In Their Shoes: Unheard Stories of Reentry and Recovery

2019

In Their Shoes: Unheard Stories of Reentry and Recovery

2019
Meet the men whose lives intersect in a prison reentry and addiction recovery creative writing program. Learn, from their own words, what lead them to commit their crimes, and witness the complexity of their ongoing stories on the outside.
Brexit: Behind Closed Doors

2019

Brexit: Behind Closed Doors

2019
From formidable opponent to laughing stock in the space of two short years: this is the story of Brexit Britain as told by the European politicians tasked with negotiating an exit deal. With exclusive access to the European parliament’s Brexit Steering Group, this revelatory fly on the wall documentary captures the internal workings of European negotiators as they deal with an increasingly beleaguered Britain. As Europe contends with a decidedly un-United Kingdom, the austere corridors and dim-lit offices of Brussels become the stage for a human drama of epic proportions; a fractured tale that is by turns exasperating, tragic and hilarious.
Onekotan: The Lost Island

2015

Onekotan: The Lost Island

2015
6
It was planned as a journey to one of the most beautiful and most fascinating islands in the world! It turns out as their most dangerous and toughest adventure ever! the professional Freeskiers Phil Meier, Matthias Haunholder and Matthias Mayr try to reach the Island Onekotan far out in stormy seas to ski the most unique Peak in the World.
The Pretender

2019

The Pretender

2019
8
Mike Kunda is the world's #1 Rocky fan, he has spent the last 40 years of his life focusing on every aspect of the Rocky films and on his fictional hero Rocky Balboa. This film documents Mike's life as he struggles to find meaning in his Rocky obsession and become the person he really wants to be.
Ocean of Grass: Life on a Nebraska Sandhills Ranch

2018

Ocean of Grass: Life on a Nebraska Sandhills Ranch

2018
An experiential, immersive documentary capturing a year in the life of a 130 year old Nebraska Sandhills ranch in a lyrical, timeless manner. The film presents the intriguing personalities and opinions of those individuals who choose this sparse, rugged lifestyle. From old school patriarchs to artistic ranchers 'with a painting problem', and from young guns pushing the ranch operations into the future to family tragedies endured, OCEAN OF GRASS leaves the viewer with an appreciative of the ranching lifestyle in the today's modern, fast-paced world. You will come to know and understand the ranching community and the honest manner in which they approach life. OCEAN OF GRASS showcases the incredible yet sublime beauty of the little-known Nebraska Sandhills using 4K, aerial, and POV cameras. The project was conceived, produced, directed, filmed, edited, and graded by first-time filmmaker Georg Joutras.
Ruminations

2018

Ruminations

2018
A documentary profile on Rumi Missabu, the iconoclast cofounder of San Francisco's infamous Cockettes. Through archive footage, animation and new interviews with stars from SF's queer art past, his lurid tales in and out of the spotlight are revealed as he reinvents himself at the end of his life.
sooner or later

2018

sooner or later

2018
When you have to bury the dead, 'cause you can't make a living as a dairy farmer anymore and vegan hippies try to find their peace in a hidebound village, life starts to reveal its absurdity. The documentary sooner or later tells the tragicomic story of a villages' struggle for the future.
Tomorrow Tripoli

2014

Tomorrow Tripoli

2014
In the early days of the Libyan revolution, when the eyes of the world were on Benghazi, a small group of insurgents were defying the dictatorship at the other end of the country, in the Nafusa Mountains. Cut off from the rest of the world, under siege from Gadaffi’s troops, these mountain people nevertheless managed to inflict a series of setbacks on the regime, driving its forces all the way to the gates of Tripoli. From guerrilla warfare in the jebel to the shores of the Mediterranean, "Tomorrow Tripoli" relates the combat of these men swept up by the revolutionary whirlwind.
Lee Fields: Faithful Man

2022

Lee Fields: Faithful Man

2022
10
Lee Fields is a funk and soul legend 50 years in the making. In this feature documentary, his journey to find his place in soul music history takes you from vinyl to virtual—and back again. His voice has been compared to James Brown, but Lee Fields is no knock-off. He’s the real thing. For decades, he thought his music dreams were dead. But with one phone call, everything changed … Interspersed with striking, never-before seen performances of new and classic Lee Fields songs, the film takes us through Lee’s memories from the moment soul music began, to his hard-won present-day success, and shows how 50 years of changing technology have conspired to create one beautiful but fleeting moment in music history.
Hit the Road: Cambodia

2018

Hit the Road: Cambodia

2018
Ric from Chicago and Keith from Newfoundland participate in a 2-week-long rickshaw rally across Cambodia.
Father's Kingdom

2017

Father's Kingdom

2017
6.6
This is the untold story of a remarkable American civil rights pioneer, Father Divine, who at one time had over a million followers worldwide in his Peace Mission Movement. However, things became complicated when he claimed that he was God incarnate.
Home + Away

2018

Home + Away

2018
1
This coming-of-age story follows three students of El Paso's Bowie High and their search for the American dream, a dream inspired by family, fueled by sports, and complicated by the US/Mexican border.